The Swedes are doing all they can to shut down The Pirate Bay, but it just won’t die. A Swedish court ordered the popular file sharing site’s bandwidth provider to cut it’s Internet access or face fines, which was enough to pressure Black Internet into action.

While the ruling was handed down on Friday, the ISP did not receive the order until Monday, which it immediately complied with. But that move has apparently triggered some type of backlash which appears to be related to its decision to comply with the courts.

Black Internet said within hours of its move, it was attacked by hackers, which did considerable damage to its infrastructure. Since the ISP provides bandwidth to other sites other than The Pirate Bay, several other companies were affected as a result.

Officials with the company weren’t elaborating on details but said it was working with police and engineers to understand what happened and where it may have came from.

Meanwhile The Pirate Bay has found a new ISP and was up fully within hours of the shutdown, making the Swedish court’s move essentially meaningless. For all intents and purposes, it appears as if it may be a losing battle to try to take the site down.

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It’s tough not to root for The Pirate Bay crew. I do agree that pirating is not the way to go but actually TPB is the best competition to the major labels/studios. If you imagine that the labels/studios would use the money they spent on pursuing TPB to improve their business/distribution model I do not think that TPB would be a big problem. If getting music/movies would be easy and affordable there would be little point in pirating. Unfortunately platforms like the iTunes store or Amazon MP3 are only available in the US and a few european countries. Where I live there is no reasonable way to get music/movies other then buy expensive DVDs/CDs.